Our concern in this paper is two-fold: first to see whether the determinants of bank distress and failure have been any …-weighted counterparts as predictors, despite the focus on the later in the Basel framework. This paper examines bank distress within a large … predict bank failures and draw inferences about the stability of contributing bank characteristics. Our models incorporate …

identifies current challenges for the bank-based financial sectors as mainly stemming from: (i) high or rising domestic credit …

simulation exercise is performed on how various external shocks affect the balance sheet of an average European bank under the … introduction of full fair value accounting could have a significant effect in terms of income volatility, procyclicality of bank …

countries. The European Central Bank (ECB), jointly with the Banking Supervision Committee (BSC), has an interest in monitoring …

bank profitability. We evaluate a broad field of research by introducing a general framework for a profit maximizing bank …

diversify the sources of revenues was apparent. The cost and profit efficiency analysis based on 33 bank-to-bank mergers …

holds true for the protection of the stability of an individual bank as it does for that of a whole national or even … international financial system. The liquidity problems of a bank can certainly have a variety of causes. However, as an examination … of the history of bank insolvencies and financial crises shows, an accelerated withdrawal of bank deposits by unsecured …